About Oswald Mould

Oswald Mould is a psychiatric nurse (retired) with extensive experience working with the mentally ill in various hospitals throughout New York City. On September 11th, 2001 he was working on Wall Street and witnessed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Describing it as, “a horrendous incident that pushed him into nursing”, Oswald left his civil service career to work as a nurse. America, the Beautiful is Oswald’s first book. He has completed four manuscripts and plans to release one a year. Mould commutes between his homes in New York, London and the Caribbean.

I became an avid reader and skilled storyteller. I noticed that when I mixed action with dialogue my stories attracted more listeners to them than those of the other boys. The boarders would drop whatever they were doing to listen, and they appeared captivated hanging on to every word as I acted out the roles of my characters. I came to realize my stories had become an important part of their weekend and during the week they would ask what story I planned to tell on the upcoming weekend.

I started at Campion College, an American based Jesuit High School in Kingston in January of 1963. No more would I be telling stories but since the school had a very good library my desire to read grew in intensity. I read the Hardy Boys series and every single copy of the Zane Grey western series I could get my hands on.

In June of 1966, I migrated to the USA and six years later I wrote my first manuscript. It was a science fiction called Of Wealth and Power. It was a story about a US computerized space-based weapon system hacked by the Russians. Once I became a registered and licensed nurse 1996 I began writing again. My first novel Herphilisneurolysis (Her-phylisis-neuro-lysis) a medical thriller a great story was a publishing disappointment. So much so I walk away from the project. I believe it was just ahead of its time. In 2008 I completed America, the Beautiful: A State of Mind, partially based on my experiences as a nurse on a psyche ward and living in the US as a black man.  By 2010 I had also completed The Flight of the Condor another medical thriller which I hope to publish next. In am currently finalizing Middle Passage, Atlantic Crossing which is another thriller telling the story of slaves and their uprising on the island of Jamaica.

I believe our stories must be told from our point of view. They must reveal our sentiments, struggles and sufferings.

I have many stories in my head wanting to be told. I wish that was all I had to do because I love it, but this is also a business and my books need to be promoted. So now, I am learning a new dimension, playing a new role – that of book promoter with the goal of learning how to get my books into your hands. I’ve come a long way from that little Jamaican boy who read comics on his way home from school. I would love to become this generation’s Shakespeare. Will I achieve it? Maybe not. But maybe I will be recognized, one day, as Oswald Mould, the author of great fiction stories.